I mean to say that the testament which God has already ratified could not be annulled by the Law which came four hundred and thirty years later, so as to make the Promise void.

For if the inheritance comes from law, it no longer comes from a promise; but God did give it as a free gift to Abraham by a promise.

To what purpose, then, was the Law? It was imposed later for the sake of transgressions, until the "Offspring" should come to whom the promise had been made. It was arranged through angels by the hand of a mediator.

but the Scripture has shut up the whole world in prison together under sin, in order that the promise due to faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who have faith.

And if you belong to Christ, then you are the descendants of Abraham, heirs according to the promise.

but while the son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, the son by the free woman was born in fulfilment of a promise.

But you, brothers, are like Isaac, children of the promise;